Category: Sports

Why Men’s Soccer will finish their season with the best record of all PC sports

by Ethan Ticehurst ’18 Sports Staff      The most impressive team on campus so far this semester has been the Providence College Men’s Soccer Team. With strong core players returning from last year’s run to the NCAA tournament, the team is looking to build upon that momentum to be even better this year. Despite […]

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Field Hockey Bursts Into Big East Play

by Jack Belanger ’21 Sports Staff     The Providence College Women’s Field Hockey Team had an eventful week. The team began Big East play against Temple University Friday night, then took the University of California-Davis, a team that traeled all the way from the west coast to play in Rhode Island. The Friars took […]

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Men’s Rugby Begins Quest for Conference Championship

by Max Anderson ’18 Sports Staff The Providence College Men’s Rugby season kicked off conference play this past Saturday, with the Friars already looking like they are in midseason form.  The Friars hosted Roger Williams on Saturday and immediately picked up right where they left off, defeating the Hawks 39-12 to improve to a 1-0 […]

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Why Women’s Volleyball will finish their season with the best record of all PC sports

by Eileen Flynn ’20 Sports Staff      The Providence College Women’s Volleyball Team hit the ground running this season and the whole campus is talking about their success. Head coach Margot Roya-Johnson must have run one tough pre-season because the Friars opened up with an impressive 10 game winning streak. Their first tournament took […]

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Women’s Rugby Hits the Field

  by Meaghan Cahill ’20 Sports Reporter While they may only be a club team on campus,  the Providence College Women’s Rugby Team is definitely a team to keep your eyes on. The team is a part of the Rugby Northeast Conference. The team is run by Providence College students with an executive board consisting […]

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Sloane Stephens Wins U.S. Open

By Kevin Skirvin ’18 and Liza Sisk ’19 Sports Co-Editors In her first ever Grand Slam final American Sloane Stephens walked away victorious. For the first time since 2002, all four women in the semi-finals were American. It was the first grand slam victory for an american woman not named “Williams” in 15 years. The […]

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Why the Yankees Will Win the American League East

By Chris McCormack ’18    The greatest baseball franchise in MLB history is back and looking toward October baseball. The New York Yankees are finally winning again and doing so with a stacked lineup backed up by some dominant pitching. As all baseball fans know, Aaron Judge went through quite the slump after the all-star […]

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Why The Red Sox Will Win the American League East

  By Meaghan Cahill ’20 Sports Staff At this point in the season, it is almost impossible for the Boston Red Sox not to win the American League East. They have five wins on the New York Yankees with 81 wins this season, which puts them in first place in the AL East and gives […]

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Women’s Soccer Kicks Off a New Season

By Eileen Flynn ’20 Sports Staff For the first time in Providence College Women’s Soccer history, the Lady Friars were scheduled to face the Razorbacks of the University of Arkansas on Sunday, September 10, 2017. Both teams stormed the field ready to meet their unfamiliar opponents. The Razorbacks made their way cross country to Providence, […]

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Men’s Hockey Looks to Light the Lamp this Season

  By Sam Scanlon ’19 Sports Staff One month until the puck drops in Ohio for the Friars’ 2017-2018 season opener against the Miami (OH) Redhawks. Two seasons removed from a National Championship, the once gritty, tough, and rugged Providence Friars have now evolved into a squad full of skillful offensive weapons and elusive skaters. […]

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